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Ep. 169: Pink Floyd Co-Founder Roger Waters & Rep. Rashida Tlaib -- Rumble 25 Million LIVE Mar 03, 2021

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On Monday, March 1st, the Rumble with Michael Moore podcast surpassed 25 million downloads. To celebrate, we recorded a special livestream episode of Rumble on YouTube with some of our favorite guests from the first 14 months which we will now share here in 4 parts. Up first: Roger Waters and Rep. Rashida Tlaib!
In this episode, Michael kicks off the event with rock music legend and Pink Floyd co-founder and creative force, Roger Waters. He first joined Rumble in May of 2020, and it turned out to be one of our most powerful and thoughtful conversations. You can listen to it here:
Episode 80: We Are Many And They Are Few (Featuring Roger Waters)
https://rumble.media/episode/episode-80-we-are-many-and-they-are-few-featuring-roger-waters/

Next, Michael was joined by Detroit Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who took some time in between House votes to discuss the proposed minimum wage increase, immigration reform and Palestine. She also got a chance to meet Roger Waters for the first time. You can listen to her previous appearance on Rumble here:
Episode 82: Liberate Michigan…From Trump (Featuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib)
https://rumble.media/episode/episode-82-liberate-michigan-from-trump-featuring-rep-rashida-tlaib/

Over the course of the next few days, we will publish all the conversations from our livestream episode, including with Jeff Daniels, Daniel Ellsberg, Anand Giridharadas, Katie Halper, Briahna Joy Gray and Sam Riddle.
If you want to watch the full four-hour + broadcast, subscribe (for free) and watch on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/vmvLtXtu7tA

The movie Michael that mentioned you should watch is "MLK/FBI":
https://www.mlkfbi.com/

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Ep. 168: I Got Vaccinated and I Live to Tell Feb 27, 2021

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Rumble with Michael Moore is about to surpass 25 million downloads! To celebrate we will be doing a livestream episode of Rumble on YouTube on Monday, March 1st at 8pm ET. Subscribe to Michael Moore's YouTube Page & set a reminder to join Monday's livestream!
https://youtu.be/vmvLtXtu7tA

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Michael Moore received his second dose of the Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine this week. He discusses his yearlong lockdown during the pandemic, why he decided to get vaccinated now, and why we should all get vaccinated when our number is called. He also shares the benefits of all the solitary time in his 353-day quarantine, his "liberation day" list of things to do once the vaccine has taken effect, the racial and socioeconomic disparities in vaccinations, and why we must all continue to be vigilant until Covid is gone for good.
Finally, Michael warns of the three major problems with the Biden administration this week: bombing Syria, going soft on the minimum wage increase and giving Saudi Crown Prince MBS a free pass after ordering the killing of a Washington Post journalist.
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Watch the movie Michael mentioned in the episode -- "Boys State"
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/boys-state/umc.cmc.1aatz9gwjhnpfqqt8noafagq

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Ep. 166: Idiot Wind Feb 19, 2021

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Between the stupid disaster occurring in Texas to the continuing stupid rampage of Covid-19 to the death of S. Rush Limbaugh, it's been a banner week for enforced ignorance and prideful stupidity in America. Michael Moore makes the connection between the unique strain of American idiocy, the never-ending addiction to the myths about the "free market" and privatization, and one of the loudest and most destructive voices in the country with his legacy of ignorance, hate, fear and violence he leaves behind. Finally, Michael reflects on the passing of Jim Ridgeway, an investigative journalist who left an indelible mark in journalism, on the left, and in Michael's life and career.
James Ridgeway, Hard-Hitting Investigative Journalist, Dies at 84
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/obituaries/james-ridgeway-dead.html

Music in episode:
"American Idiot" - Green Day
https://open.spotify.com/track/6nTiIhLmQ3FWhvrGafw2zj?si=db0f230bd8394412

"Idiot Wind" - Bob Dylan
https://open.spotify.com/track/1nbGN4N63uCQq0pCIs3kIf?si=b2598ef832be4472

Watch the film Michael mentioned, "Welcome To Chechnya"
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/welcome-to-chechnya

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Ep. 165: Charles Blow (feat. Charles Blow) Feb 16, 2021

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Charles Blow is a columnist at the New York Times, and commentator on CNN and the author of a new book, "The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto." His voice is like no other in the media. He joins Michael to discuss the problem with lumping together "people of color," why political attempts at "unity" have often been at the expense of and to the detriment of Black Americans and minority groups, and his radical geographic plan for how to increase the political and economic power of Black American as he's detailed in his new manifesto. How does 14 Black Senators sound?

Read Charles' new book ,"The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto"
https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9780062914668

Check out more books from Rumble guests:
https://bookshop.org/shop/RumbleMichaelMoore

Music in the episode:
"Going Back Home" - Nina Simone
https://open.spotify.com/track/6wuYm5DYdjhye8WGm5WCiL?si=3b27e3d4ed94459c

"Midnight Train To Georgia" - Gladys Knight & The Pips
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MF7QAodbGzNYav5ZfIhAY?si=b97f9dd385824b7b

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Ep. 163: RUMBLE LIVE -- When The President Incites, You Must Indict Feb 11, 2021

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On Day 3 of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, the Democratic impeachment managers unveiled stunning and maddening video proof of the violent, insurrectionist mob being instigated by Trump and showing their lethal and deadly actions and intentions. Footage we've never seen before of Senators running for their lives was among the evidence that showed how the January 6th, 2021 was even worse than we thought.
Michael Moore reflects on today's stunning testimony. The Senate must convict this thuggish sociopath and forbid him for running for office again, and any Republican member of congress who voted in favor of the insurrectionists must be shunned, shamed, defeated and removed.
Call your Senators and demand Trump be convicted:
202-224-3121
202-225-3121
Watch the video the Democrats played aired to kickoff the impeachment trial:
https://youtu.be/lXB0o0t8qnM

The Sedition Caucus:
https://medium.com/@MMFlint/immediately-remove-the-republicans-who-voted-in-favor-of-the-terrorists-demands-e74d08983a6d

This was originally recorded on Facebook Live.
Follow Michael on:
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/MMFlint

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/michaelfmoore/

Ep. 162: How To Make 2021 The Year Of The Equal Rights Amendment (w/ Rep. Jackie Speier) Feb 09, 2021

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After first being drafted in 1923 by two leaders of the women’s suffrage movement and then finally being passed by Congress in 1972, the century-long struggle to have the Equal Rights Amendment ratified and gender-equality enshrined in the U.S. Constitution is finally on the brink of succeeding. That's because in 2020, the state of Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the E.R.A. matching the two-thirds threshold needed to ratify a constitutional amendment. However, an arbitrary 7-year time limit on the 1972 legislation has provided one final hurdle that advocates for women's equality must overcome.
Rep. Jackie Speier of California has been leading the charge in Congress on the E.R.A. since she got there in 2013. The day after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were inaugurated, Rep. Speier reintroduced this bill to remove the arbitrary time limit and put the E.R.A. on the path to ratification. She joins Michael to discuss the roadmap for what we all need to do to make equal rights for women a reality.

Who to push to make sure we finally ratify the E.R.A. --
Call Your Senator:
202-224-3121
202-225-3121
The White House:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Take Action With The E.R.A. Coalition:
http://www.eracoalition.org/take-action

Music in the episode:
"You Don't Own Me" - Lesley Gore
https://open.spotify.com/track/0bKfZQu4RTTQlAZAGVLAcc

Ep. 161: Viggo Mortensen (feat. Viggo Mortensen) Feb 06, 2021

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We are in an age of mass confusion, political instability, and social distrust. Even within many families, there's a sense that we are living on different planets, with different realities, competing sets of facts, and values and beliefs that directly contradict one another. So how do we, as a species, go about living together when we don't trust, don't like and even feel mortally threatened by one another?
Viggo Mortensen is one of the most talented, dynamic and versatile actors of our time. He has written, directed and stars in a new film that captures this tension within a family, and beautifully depicts their attempts at surviving one another in these tense times. He joins Michael to discuss his directorial debut, these turbulent times we are experiencing, art during the pandemic, living in Spain, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and when he first learned that he would die one day.
"Falling" - Written, Directed, Produced and Starring Viggo Mortensen
https://www.modernfilms.com/falling

Music for "Falling" - Featuring Music by Viggo Mortensen, Buckethead, Skating Poly
https://youtu.be/IxfFbsofSMA

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Ep. 157: Let America Be America Again - Inauguration 2021 (feat. Langston Hughes) Jan 20, 2021

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It's over. It's finally fucking over. Donald Trump's presidency is finished.

On Inauguration Day 2021, Mike takes us back to Inauguration eve 2017, hours before Donald Trump was to be sworn in as President, where he read Langston Hughes' very timely 1935 poem "Let America Be America Again" at 3AM in a Washington D.C. hotel room. Mike recounts that night in D.C., on the brink of Trump's presidency (and Women's March the following day) and also shares new thoughts on how, four years later, in a militarized "Green Zone" in our nation's Capital, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris take the reigns of a beaten and bruised nation, but one full of promise.

Read the original Langston Hughes poem:
https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again

Music in the episode:
"Hallelujah" - Performed by Yolanda Adams at Biden/Harris Inauguration Eve Covid Memorial Event
https://youtu.be/iohM2wnouDo

"Hallelujah" - Leonard Cohen
https://open.spotify.com/track/6s1mt6e0n8G7jcNhcxXKzq

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Ep. 156: RUMBLE LIVE - Need A Domestic Terrorist? Dial 9-1-1 Jan 18, 2021

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As we've now learned of the proliferation of military and police who helped organize and who participated in the insurrection, the people Biden and Harris must actually fear are the ones wearing guns, camo and a badge.
Take down the fences and send home the National Guard. The terrorists are not coming from the outside. The real terrorists are already inside the house (and the House!). January 6th was their horror movie version of calling from somewhere downstairs. Michael Moore shares his latest thinking on the ongoing terrorist threat from the American right-wing, how the white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement and the military poses our biggest challenge, why the white, patriarchal society's perceived losing of power will motive their anger and hate for a long time, and why Biden-Harris must stick to their plans to hold the inauguration on the Capitol steps.

This episode was recorded on Facebook Live.

Call your member of Congress: 202-224-3121

AP: FBI vetting Guard troops in DC amid fears of insider attack
https://apnews.com/article/biden-inauguration-joe-biden-capitol-siege-ap-top-news-857bacc273e16ff82dc9fefed1242ae8

2006 FBI report: White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/White_Supremacist_Infiltration_of_Law_Enforcement.pdf

The report we discussed with former DHS analyst Daryl Johnson in Episode 154:
Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment
https://fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf

All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html

Ep. 155: Rick Snyder's Crimes Against Humanity (feat. Jordan Chariton) Jan 16, 2021

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After more than six years of no accountability for former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder for his actions leading to the poisoning of the city of Flint, Snyder was arraigned on Wednesday for two counts of willful neglect of duty. He is the first of Michigan’s 49 governors in 184 years to face charges related to their time in office. If convicted, he could face up to one year in jail and up to $1,000 in fines. Snyder is among nine senior officials who are facing a total of 42 criminal charges for their actions that caused a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Genesee County, and caused permanent, irreversible brain damage due to lead poisoning to thousands of Flint children.
Michael is joined by investigative journalist Jordan Chariton who had doggedly reported on the plight of the people of Flint and the wide-ranging cover-up by Snyder and his henchman. They discuss why it's taken this long for any sort of legal action to be taken against Snyder, why his misdemeanor charge is not enough, and what we must do now.
How A Flurry Of Suspicious Phone Calls Set Investigators On Rick Snyder’s Trail
By Jordan Chariton & Jenn Dize
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/13/flint-michigan-rick-snyder-legionnaires/

Michigan's Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder Knew About Flint's Toxic Water—and Lied About It
By Jordan Chariton & Jenn Dize
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3bdp9/michigans-ex-gov-rick-snyder-knew-about-flints-toxic-waterand-lied-about-it

Follow Jordan's work at Status Coup:
https://statuscoup.com/

You can contact Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's office here:
https://www.michigan.gov/ag/0,4534,7-359-82100---,00.html

Michael's Friday night appearance on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams:
https://fb.watch/32ev5A9HXs/

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